AASLH Annual Meeting 2019 Call for Posters
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at the 2019 AASLH Annual [...]
History in Progress: The One Orlando Collection
This project is the recipient of a 2017 History in Progress Award. June 12, 2016 saw the massacre of forty-nine individuals at [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Joining the Fray: Emerging Museum/History Professionals and the Future of our Fields
SEMC EMPs, courtesy James Quint The establishment of new emerging professional groups in museums, history, and related fields, [...]
WW1 Poppy Program Raises Money for National WW1 Memorial in DC and Your Community
AASLH is pleased to be working with our colleagues at the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission to promote the WW1 [...]
Practicing Facilitation: Lessons from the Tenement Museum
Visitors on the Hard Times tour. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This post was originally published [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Black Heritage Society of Washington State on Becoming Better Stewards of Their Collections
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Stitching History Program
For the War of 1812 bicentennial, Maryland Historical Society wanted to do something bigger than an exhibit or book: something different enough to capture the [...]
Industrial Eden: The Legacy of Haywardville
Industrial Eden was a yearlong multi-community program designed to heighten awareness of area residents to a local vanished mill village known as Haywardville. This nationally [...]
Worcester Revolution of 1774
On September 6, 1774, 4,622 militiamen from throughout Worcester County, Massachusetts, marched into the town and closed the Royal Courts, forcing officials to defy Parliament [...]
Native Neighbors from Freedom’s Frontier’s Past
In 2012, the Franklin County Historical Society (FCHS) approached Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) with an idea for a public history program to highlight [...]
WWI Memorial Design Finalists on Exhibit in DC til Dec 22
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will publicly exhibit the five finalist design concepts for the national World War I Memorial in [...]
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty is the first large-scale exhibit project in the OPHS’s twenty-year history and was shown in the [...]